First Wedding Cake

by Christy Higgins
(Oxford MI, USA)

Hi I did a White Chocolate Raspberry 4 tier cake with fondant for a 250 person wedding. It was my first wedding cake and it turned out great. Recently posted it on facebook and a friend asked me to make hers for her wedding this September.

Vegan Wedding Cake

The bride and groom requested a vegan wedding cake with a starry night theme. Given the fact that it was almost ninety degrees and humid the vegan icing was quite a challenge.

Adding arrowroot and agar helped. Now I have found powdered soy milk which I will use as a stabilizer for vegan buttercreams.

Michelle thank you for your vegan wedding cake picture and tips. It's very sweet. Would you like to add the recipe for it and your icing? If so use the comments form to do so. Thank you for sharing your Starry Night wedding cake with us.

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Vegan cakesby: AnonymousHi, Thank you for your tips on vegan icing. would like to know the recipe for the vegan cake and vegan icing.

Recipeby: LorelieHi I hope Michelle responds with the recipe for you. Thanks for visiting. I will check with my Facebook crew and see if anyone can help too.

Recipesby: Michele OwenHere is the recipes I used for Starry Night.The frosting is adapted from an old fashioned cooked buttercream and the cake is adapted from Cupcakes Take Over The World.Vegan Buttercream2/3 cup sugar1/4 cup flour1/4 teas cream of tartar1/8 teas agar powder1/4 teas salt3/4 cup unsweetened coconut milk1/2 cup earth balance1/2 cup unsweetened coconut cream

Place sugar, flour, cream of tartar, agar, and salt in a saucepan and whisk thoroughly. Slowly whisk in coconut milk. Cook over medium heat stirring constantly until very thick. Remove from heat and pour into a mixing bowl. Cool in fridge about an hour. take out and beat mixture on high for a few minutes. Begin adding earth balance and coconut cream a couple of tablespoons at a time. Continue beating until creamy. Add vanilla. Chill for a about 30 minutes.

The chocolate cake came from a recipe in Cupcakes Take Over The World. I substituted coconut milk for the soy and added chocolate extract.I hope this helps.

Thank you so muchby: LorelieMichelle, Thank you so much for sharing your vegan recipe with us.

A Fountain Wedding Cake Present

by Francinae Tango
(London, Barnet, UK)

This fountain wedding cake was a present for someone who deserves this kind of gift for her big day.

Wow! Francinae that is a fabulous gift. I am sure your friend was extremely happy. Thank you for sharing it with Wedding Cakes For You. What flavor was it? Can you tell us a little more about the cake, like how long it took to prepare and how many people it served. Would love to hear details about your fountain wedding cake present.

Cascading Cassada Cake

Cassada Wedding Cake

By an anonymous reader.My Aunt made this fabulous cake for us from scratch. It's a cassada flavor with strawberry custard and whip cream frosting.

I've always had cassada cake for special occasions and it was very fitting for our wedding day! The flowers are silk pink roses bought at a craft store and the baby's breath is real. The topper is called "promise" from Willow Tree.

My Aunt designed and decorated the entire thing and the table. The initial reason for the cascade design was that the tiers were too heavy and the whip cream too soft to stack them on top of each other. I am so glad a technical detail made our cake look so elegant!

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Love your floating design!by: Lorelie

Hi Thanks for sharing your wedding cake picture with us. Your Aunt did a beautiful job. What a great idea to use the cascading floating stand for a cake that is very delicate. Nice alternative to the usual as well.

Mad Hatter Wedding Cake

The colors of the wedding were black and white with splashes of green. The bride gave me free reign.

I made my own marshmallow fondant because my son doesn't like traditional fondant. It was super easy and fun.

The topper was a calla lily, my daughter-in-laws favorite flower, even though she is allergic to them.

Heather Thanks for adding your cool Mad Hatter design. It's very festive. I really love the pink and green with the buttons on the bottom tier. I agree with your son, the marshmallow fondant is very tasty.

MY CAKE GALERY

by Francine Tango
(London, Barnet)

All of these are wedding cakes are made by me, Francine Tango. This is my passion and all I do is baking and cooking. I love to cook nice healthy food cakes. Shown are a couple of wedding cakes with fountains, pillars and stairs and a few tiered wedding cakes.

Simple tiered wedding cake with flowers

by Mary Harris
(Niskayuna, New York)

This simple tiered wedding cake with flowers was done for a co-worker's daughter. She wanted something very simple with the flowers being her wedding color. The flavor is vanilla with butter cream filling icing and the flowers are silk.

Simple yet elegant wedding cake

by Julie
(Tinton Falls, NJ)

This cake was done by Chocolate Carousel in Belmar, NJ. My daughter wanted something simple to go with the piece she chose for the top. They did a fabulous job of pulling that off- some say it needs color, and I thought that too at first, but the more I look at it, the more I say "no, it's beautiful, they got it right"

First Wedding Cake

Here is a pic of my cake. Not perfect, but not bad for a first try I think, and definitely delicious!! Your recipe really saved me!

I have a cupcake catering business, and friends asked me to make a traditional wedding cake for them. I tested several recipes before finding your site, and your white butter cake recipe was PERFECT!

I added almond flavoring, a little bit of ground almonds, and soaked it with a little amaretto. Everyone absolutely raved. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge!

Hi Amy, Thank you so much for sharing your first wedding cake with us. Very nice and I am quite sure delicious :-) I'm so glad that you found Wedding Cakes For You. That recipe is tried and true and I use it for my own wedding cakes all the time. I love that you added your own twist to it with the Almonds and Amaretto. I will have to give that one a try.

Wedding Cake With Fountain

by Edith Sieg-Reed
(Newport News, VA)

Bridge and Fountain cake

A friend asked me to make a wedding cake for her friend. It was a true honor.

Edith thank you for sharing your fountain wedding cake with us. Here is a link to more wedding cakes with fountains on this website. Can you tell us a little more about it and how you managed it? What flavors? and any decorating tips or tricks? Thanks Edith for generously sharing.

Cake Decorating Contest Connecticut

by Helga Maldonado
(Manchester, CT)

The Wedding Cake Gallery is a collection of some of the cakes that visitors have shared. You can see fantastic examples of other cake decorators work here and learn a great deal from them. I hope you enjoy this page and please feel free to comment, ask questions and share your cakes too.Hi Lorelie,

I made this cake for the Connecticut Cake Competition and won the third place in the Wedding Division. It is 5 tiers with stencil and lots of roses, hydrangeas, buds and filler flowers. This is my first competition and the best experience ever. Hope you like it.

Thanks,Helga

Congratulations Helga! It is beautiful. You should be very proud of yourself. I am so happy for you !!! Your roses are really well done and it is so elegant. Thank you for sharing with us this beautiful 5 tiered masterpiece. I would love to attend the decorating contest next year or possibly enter into it. That would be lots of fun:-)

Spring Garden Wedding Cake

by Michelle Ousby
(Yuba City, CA)

I just adore creating gum paste sugar flowers, and the more realistic I can make them look the more I love them. Most flowers are created free form and each petal is hand painted using multiple colors of chalk pastels, and occasionally petal dusts. Happy Decorating......

That's a WOW!! Michelle :-) Thank you for sharing this phenomenal wedding cake with very realistic fondant flowers. Amazing!

Black and White Wedding

by Tia Hewuse
(Tomah, WI )

My name is Tia Hewuse, I made this black and white wedding cake for my sister. I am 18 years old and have just graduated high school. I will be attending Webster University, in St. Louis, MO in the fall for art, but will continue my love for the pastry arts as well.

I owe it to Grandma

I was 12 when I was first taught by my wonderful grandma. My grandmother was a professional cake decorator for many years and I owe everything I know to her. Word is getting out about me and I have decorated several birthday cakes and two wedding cakes!

I cannot legally charge money for my cakes, so I tell those who ask for my services that they they may make a contribution to my college fund which they do out of the goodness of their hearts.

My sister asked me to make her wedding cake which was held in May. It was rather small wedding compared to the size of cake that she wanted. Lucky for us we have a lot of family that love sweets.

Flavors and Color and Theme

The flavor was the normal chocolate and yellow cake, but it also had strawberry and raspberry filling. I chose to use pie filling because it is so tasty and adds great moisture to the cake!

Her colors were black, silver, and white and her theme was hearts. The fake flowers on the cake are the same flowers from part of the bride’s bouquet. I protested against putting fake flowers on the cake but, the bride got what she wanted.

The feel that I wanted people to get from the cake was simple elegance. The flowing ribbon from the top pillar to the floor tied in this theme. The black stripe around all of the tiers is made from fondant which I have found to be the most convenient and easy way to make a ribbon cake. TIP: Using fondant instead of real ribbon is nice because you can cut the cake without ruining the beauty of it and having to take it apart. The cake is frosted with buttercream frosting. It was so much fun to make! I hope you like it!

Redneck Wedding & Groom Cake

by Anne Thomas
(Loganville, Georgia)

Redneck Wedding Cake

Redneck Grooms Cake

I made these cakes for my granddaughter and her husband, she had no idea what she wanted, just something pretty....so I just took what she and he liked and made it into cake. Their favorite movie was Big Fish, Little Fish and I took their favorite quote and wrote it on the cake.

I found the perfect topper to go with it on Ebay. The hubby is an avid Carp fisherman and you should have seen the look on his face when he saw his chocolate creme-filled carps swimming in a lake of chocolate covered strawberries....let's just say that I was voted BEST GRANDMOM!!!